During World War 2, Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "If you
board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other
direction." If we look at the state
education legislation passed in the house and the senate this year, we see that
most of our state legislators have boarded the wrong train. In response, we at the educational freedom
coalition are calling for a moratorium on ALL STATE EDUCATION LEGISLATION. Until our legislators get off the education
cartel-run train, we need to halt all education legislation. In our battle against common core, we need to
play defense this legislative session.
There are many bills passed in previous years that need to be repealed
at the state level to get our educational liberty back and get us out of common
core, but we realize that that is not possible this year. Here is a summary of the legislation that
needs to be stopped now, before it becomes law:
1. HB 91- This bill
eliminates the only non-common core based test left, the Georgia High School
Graduation Test.
2. SB 89- This bill
gives authority to the appointed State Board of Education over all
instructional materials, digital or print.
If a local school system wants to adopt materials not on the approved
list, they need to team up with 4 other superintendents or 20 teachers from
different school districts to petition the State Board of Education for
approval.
3. SB 156- This bill
establishes a crony-capitalist system by establishing a private non-profit
foundation as authorized by the appointed charter commission.
4. HB 474- This bill
establishes admission priorities for charter schools and gives preference to
"educationally disadvantaged" students.
5. SB 132- This bill
authorizes work based learning to satisfy the high school graduation
requirements for dual enrollment beginning in 9th grade. According to HB 766 from 2014, students will
not be compensated for work based learning.
6. SB 133- This bill
authorizes the governor to appoint an Opportunity School District
Superintendent with the sole ability to take authority completely away from
locally elected school officials based on school rating scores that do not
reflect student achievement directly and hand these schools over to private
charter operators.
7. SB 164- This bill
promotes PBIS, a behavior management system that is part of the CCRPI school
rating score promoted by the U.S. Department of Education. It is based on the stimulus-response model
that de-humanizes students.
8. SB 2- Allows
students to graduate from high school without completing any academic courses
after 10th grade. Combined with the
elimination of the high school graduation test, there will be no way of
measuring the reading, writing, and math abilities of high school graduates.
Links to the bills and a detailed analysis of each bill can
be found at: http://l.facebook.com/l/HAQG52wSHAQGoCThZA6fAQHJI_wjSRCp736F4CU78CKfdag/www.EducationalFreedomCoalition.com
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